Oil- mill workers: More than 15 days of a huge struggle to win a living wage, facing the "Social Pact" of the union bureaucracy with the government, the UIA (Industrial Employers Chamber) and the agrarian oligarchy.

WE ARE ALL OIL- MILL WORKERS!

Their struggle and their demands are those of the entire labor movement

$ 93,000  Living Minimum Wage for all, adjusted according to inflation!

Enough of layoffs, unemployment and labor slavery!
We must ignore the collective bargaining of hunger and surrender signed by the union bureaucracy to the Government and the bosses!

Down with the Social Pact!
We must unite the workers resistance! National Fighting Coordinator of employed and unemployed workers!

Capitalists should pay for the crisis!
They triggered this crisis. They, with the IMF, have plundered the nation

The workers of the Oil-mill Workers Federation (F.T.C.I.O.D.y A.R.A.) have been on a national strike for more than 15 days together with the grain receiving workers (URGARA) and the San Lorenzo Oil-mill workers (SOEA). All of them rose against labor flexibility and for the living minimum and mobile monthly wage of 93 thousand pesos since January, calculated by the Oil-mill Federation to cover the needs of the workers. This is a fight against the conglomerate of imperialist cereal companies such as Cargill, Bunge and ADM, Dreyfus, Glencore, and also COFCO, Molinos Río de La Plata and Aceitera General Deheza (AGD), united in the Chamber of the Oil-Mill Industry (CIARA) .
The cereal companies do not want to give anything, but the workers have begun to respond. The workers of the Intersindical Marítima Portuaria y Afines del Cordón Industrial (Inter Union Seafarers and Linked Activities of the Rosario Industrial Belt , which concentrates a dozen unions such as the SUPA (dock workers) of Rosario, is joining the strike until Thursday 12/24/20 for the moment. That example is the one that all workers in the country should take into their hands! Such an industrial action in the port of Buenos Aires City would be enough to stop the layoffs at Terminal 5 and those that are oncoming throughout the port. But there, the union bureaucracies have already agreed to the surrender of the comrades, as they did in hundreds of struggles and in infamous collective bargainings, such as in the UOM (metalworkers' union) of Caló, Fernandezes government's servil follower, who has agreed to a salary of misery and extreme sufferings for all the country's metal workers. The bosses do not stop putting prices of everything continually up, and the traitor union bureaucrats do not stop selling out our wages.
We have to fight like the oil - mill workers! ... The strike is paralyzing the most important port center for agro-industrial exports, which runs along the coast of Parana-de la Plata Rivers from the province of Santa Fe  (center-east) to the north of province of Buenos Aires (east), including the port of Rosario, where  the 90% of the  production for export is shipped. Today, more than 130 ships cannot load soybean meal and oil, in addition to sunflower oil, and bulk wheat and barley grains.
Cereal companies parasites have doubled their turnover since March, due to the significant reduction in tax withholdings that favored them, the increase in the price of soybeans that today exceeds 460 dollars per ton and the devaluation of the Argentinean peso.
As the representatives of the oil-mill workers themselves say: "Can anyone believe that, as they say, these companies are losing 100 million dollars a day and cannot afford a wage increase for their workers? That is, with just one day of the (then) seven of the strike is more than enough to pay the increase for the whole year to all workers."
Down with the commercial secret! Open the accounting books of all the cereal companies and their banks!
The cereal companies are amassing fortunes by looting the nation while 50% of the working families live in misery with 25 thousand pesos a month (a fourth of what is needed to eat and live just decently, NT). 9 million unemployed and underemployed live as outcasts. The bosses' and their politicians have thrown over us their entire crisis with layoffs; liquidation of our labor conquests and starvation monthly wages liquefied by inflation and the high cost of living.
The oil workers and grain receivers cannot continue fighting alone against the powerful grain monopolies and the capitalists who, together with the agrarian oligarchy, have concentrated all their forces to defeat them. If the oil-mill workers win, we all win!
The struggle of oil-mill workers hits squarely against the fake collective bargainings of the Social Pact among the union bureaucracy, the government of the bosses' and the UIA, the Chambers of Commerce, the Bankers and the Rural Society, such as the one signed by Caló, handing over the salary of all metal workers . In this oil-mill workers' strike, the immediate future of the entire Argentinean working class is largely at stake, in its struggle for a decent wage and genuine work.
The working class has not said its last word, the tire workers have been on strike against the dismissals in Bridgestone, they are resisting in Danica vegetal fats plant, they seek to win the streets again like the teachers and state workers of the province of  Chubut, the health workers continue to fight all over the country, the workers of the port of Buenos Aires have not yet given up, and the unemployed workers associations seek to rise up against hunger, poverty and for housing. At the same time, the bosses' justice is deepening the persecution of all those who go out to fight, holding political prisoners like Sebastian Romero, prosecuted and sentenced to life like the oil workers from Las Heras.
Trade unionism and the combative piquetero movement, from the SUTNA (tire workers union), the opposition locals and tickets in SUTEBA (Buenos Aires Province teachers' union), the UF Haedo (Suburban line railworkers), CICOP(Professional Health Workers of Buenos Aires prov.), etc.  even the picketer (unemployed) movements that mobilize week after week have to put all their forces at the service of coordinating the workers' resistance, following the path of the Intersindical Portuaria ( Dockers’ Inter Union) , which called to fight and stop alongside the oil- mill workers and grain receivers. Thus the working class can strike like a single fist against the war that those from above have declared on us, led by imperialism, monopolies and the IMF.
The oil-mill workers began their fight. The Dockers and the Intersindical Marítima joined. The grain ships are lining up and have no other choice but to wait. The workers have shown all their strength.
Now we must demonstrate the strength of the working class forces throughout the country so that the oil - mill workers win and we all win. We must break the siege imposed by the union bureaucracy to every struggle! We cannot continue fighting divided.
In each fight, the bosses and the government concentrate their forces to defeat us. A call from the oil- mill workers' union to all the organizations in struggle, of employed and unemployed workers, would set up enormous forces and a national struggle united command so that the oil-mill workers' strike succeeds and opens the path to a generalized struggle for all the demands of the labor movement.

Enough is enough!
Capitalists must pay for the crisis!

For a Living Minimum and mobile salary of  93,000 pesos for the entire labor movement!
Sliding scale of working hours! Enough of begging and handouts!
All free hands to produce! $ 51,000 of unemployment insurance for everyone!
We must unite the struggles! Claims must be joined! For a Single National Collective Bargaining!
The State of Big Business and the oligarchy has taken hostage dozens and hundreds of fighters, who are detained like Sebastián Romero, the bus drivers from the Eastern Line of La Plata, or processed like Arakaki, Ponce ... No more! we can't allow it! Freedom to comrades! Dropping of all charges against the fighters now!
There is no time to lose! Those from above are coming for all of us! We have to go for all of them!